Keeping Tabs
These stories are just follow-ups on previously covered issues.
FSS -- “Congress Chides FAA for Failing In Oversight of Lockheed Work”
The Memphis Center Outage -- ”Air Traffic Control Failure Is Examined”
Don Brown
October 12, 2007
The Flick -- A term used by air traffic controllers to describe a mental model representing the current and future positions of air traffic in a section of airspace. Controllers visualize the paths of multiple aircraft in terms of position, altitude, trajectory and speed. Controllers also refer to this as "having the picture." But the picture moves -- like a movie -- hence the term “the flick.”
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